Morelli Hospital Seven infected Medicine reopened

It was back in operation on Saturday afternoon, but the news was announced yesterday by Asst Valtellina and Alto Lario, the Medicine department of Morelli di Sondalo closed for a Covid outbreak.

In fact, since last Tuesday, the department had to interrupt the hospitalization and treatment activity because it is affected by the presence, within it, of the coronavirus, which has crept right into its operators.

The numbers

Seven infected ones, a doctor, three nurses and three social health workers, as specified by the ASST itself, found positive for Covid after having been subjected to all the necessary checks and following participation or having come into contact with colleagues who took part in a wedding party held on October 3 in Gravedona.

And the fact that the celebrations took place mostly outdoors was not enough to avert the worst. Unfortunately, Covid managed to enter, spreading, as it does very well, and reaping its victims. Who, being professionals and operators in the health sector, in turn risk exporting the infection to the workplace with serious repercussions also on patients. Hence the immediate closure of the ward, as soon as the outbreak was discovered, and the transfer of patients hospitalized there in medicine in Sondrio.

Admissions

Not all of them, however, because some, as reported by the daughter of an inpatient, had to resort to the Covid ward: “I deny the rumor circulating that no medical inpatient would get sick, because one exists, and it’s my father . My father was transferred to the Covid ward – assures the daughter -. One entrusts loved ones to the care of doctors, and my father is 80 years old, to make them feel better, and instead they get sick … It is a shameful thing – he concludes – and I hope that attention is kept high on this matter and, likewise , that nothing is covered up ».

In the meantime, during the week, the patients who arrived at Morelli and destined for medicine were hospitalized in Pneumology, waiting to complete the sanitization process of each room, study, corner, of the ward affected by the infection. Which has been aired and turned inside out like a sock, in order to make it completely “clean”, with respect to the possible presence of the virus.

At the moment, the infected operators would still be out of service, as they will have to strictly observe the quarantine period and then be subjected to double control swabs and therefore resume their work activities.

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